The United Nations refugee agency today reported a sharp rise in the number of Afghans – now at 20,000 – who are massed at the Chaman border crossing in Pakistan waiting to be registered.
Following the fall of the Taliban regime, women in Afghanistan have begun to reclaim their rights, according to a new United Nations report which urges international support for measures to promote gender equality in the war-ravaged nation.
Trade officials from across the Asia-Pacific region are gearing up for a United Nations seminar in Bangkok next week on facilitating accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, will visit the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan in late February and early March, her spokesman announced today.
Afghanistan’s interim government today informed the United Nations that it was launching a probe into the killing of its Air Transport and Tourism minister in an attack at Kabul airport on Thursday.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has approved the re-establishment of the five-member Board of Commissioners to supervise East Timor’s first-ever presidential elections.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has moved personnel into isolated parts of Afghanistan as part of a three-month effort to assess the country’s food needs, a spokesperson for the agency announced today.
Citing lack of reliable information about the level of HIV/AIDS infection in Afghanistan, the United Nations health agency said today it was set to begin a survey of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in the country.
Provisions to strengthen human rights protections are among several significant changes to the latest draft of East Timor’s first constitution, the UN Transitional Administration in the territory (UNTAET) reported today.
In a preliminary step towards finalizing territorial boundaries, the United Nations and Indonesia have agreed on plans to survey and demarcate the border between East and West Timor, the UN Transitional Administration (UNTAET) said today.
